How to Change a Notepad Document Into an MS Excel File. When you're creating spreadsheet documents to track employee IDs, forecast sales or compare products, you may want to prepare your data in ...

Let’s assume you have a product list in a Notepad or .txt file and need to import it into a column in an Excel spreadsheet. There are two ways to do that.

If your Excel files are opening in Notepad on Windows PC, here's how you can reset the settings to make .xls, .xlsx, etc files open in Excel.

How to Change an MS Works Spreadsheet to MS Excel. Microsoft discontinued the lower-priced Microsoft Works suite, but you can convert old documents to use current Microsoft Office formats.